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- Title:
- MANIRUG
- Date Created:
- 2021-06-26
- Description:
- Could the Comet of 1680 have caused the influenza pandemic of 1687? The emergency continued into the next year. Fr. Casimiro Diaz, OSA was serving in Guagua, Pampanga. Most of the indios were “prostrated by the cruel influenza, and the rest of them caring for the sick ones.” The few people on the street were deputies and officials of the confraternities who were carrying jars of NASI (cooked rice), going up into houses providing those who were in need with food. “Most of the people were without it, and others could not cook,” he wrote. Although influenza was frequent in the colony that year’s was the worst according to elders. Many died especially children and old persons. There were no people to cultivate rice fields. Before influenza hit, locusts had ruined a previous harvest. They were facing DANUP, hunger. What they would have appreciated was MANIRUG, the thoughtful act of offering a patient a favourite food that could revive the desire to eat, as defined by Fr. Diego Bergaño, a fellow Augustinian. IRUG described gravy, condiments, flavour, and anything else that whet the appetite. The definition implies that gravy was part of Pampanga cuisine by that time. The pandemic then like today inspired charity through feeding.
- Subjects:
- Fr. Casimiro Diaz Influenza Fr. Diego Bergaño Guagua
- Exhibition:
- Pampaga 1732
- Source:
- The influenza virus. Adobe Stock photo.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "MANIRUG", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll231.html